Expertise
Geoff is an IP and commercial litigator with over 30 years of trial experience. He has acted for some of the world’s biggest brands across a broad range of sectors (including sport, retail, FMCG, fashion, publishing, and aviation).
Geoff has significant experience in trade mark infringement, registered and unregistered design infringement, and copyright infringement as well as licensing, supply and contractual disputes. He has acted on numerous reported IP cases and passing off, including the leading authorities on post sale confusion in trade mark infringement, and on statutory acquiescence, and registered design infringement.
Brands are at the heart of Geoff’s practice and he offers strategic advice from brand creation and filing strategy to enforcement.
- Experience
Reported decisions upon which he has acted include:
- Up and Running (UK) Limited v. Deckers UK Limited
- COMBE INTERNATIONAL LTD and another v Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel and another IL-2019-000117
- Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc and another IL-2021-000043
- Marks and Spencer P.L.C. v Aldi Stores Limited IP-2021-000119
- Rothy's Inc v. Giesswein Walkwaren [2020] EWHC 3391
- GHS Global Hospitality Limited v Beale and others
- New Balance Athletics, Inc. v. The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited CL-2019-000565
- BV Nederlandse Industrie Van Eiprodukten v. Rembrandt Enterprises Inc CL-2016-000186
- Thai Airways International Public Company Ltd v KI Holdings Co Ltd & Anor [2015] EWHC 1476 (Comm) (22 May 2015)
- Group Lotus Plc & Anor v 1Malaysia Racing Team SDN BHD & Ors [2011] EWHC 1366 (Ch) (27 May 2011)
- Anheuser-Busch v Budejovicky Budvar (Intellectual property) [2011] EUECJ C-96/09 (29 March 2011)
- Looney v Trafigura Beheer BV [2011] EWHC 125 (Ch) (01 February 2011)
- Hudson Bay Apparel Brands Llc v Umbro International Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 949 (11 August 2010)
- Davidoff & Cie and Zino Davidoff (Approximation of laws) [2003] EUECJ C-292/00 (09 January 2003)
- Deckers; M&S, Combe; New Balance; Iconix.